Systems and methods are provided for weapon system monitoring and virtual deployment presentation, including a connection point that receives signals from a plurality of weapons within a deployment location, the signals including sensor information recorded using sensors of the weapons, a server device running application software that receives the signals from the connection point and processes the signals to generate a virtual reality depiction of the deployment location, and a graphical user interface presenting a field of view of the virtual reality depiction of the deployment location with icons indicating at least one of the positions, orientations or affiliations of the plurality of weapons.
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1. A system for weapon system monitoring and virtual deployment presentation, the system comprising: a connection point that receives signals from a plurality of weapons within a deployment location, the signals including sensor information recorded using sensors of the weapons; and a server device running application software that receives the signals from the connection point and processes the signals to generate a virtual reality depiction of the deployment location, wherein the virtual reality depiction presents at least one of positions, orientations or affiliations of the plurality of weapons within the deployment location; and a graphical user interface presenting a field of view of the virtual reality depiction of the deployment location with icons indicating at least one of the positions, orientations or affiliations of the plurality of weapons.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the sensors include one or more of geolocation sensors, image sensors, or inertial motion sensors.
3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the virtual reality depiction is represented in the graphical user interface based on measurements recorded using the inertial motion sensors of respective weapons, wherein the measurements indicate a change in orientation of the respective weapons.
4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the change in orientation of a weapon refers to an orientation of the weapon changing from one of a gripping orientation or a drawing orientation to one of a pointing orientation or a firing orientation.
5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the graphical user interface includes one or more virtual reality depictions including a top-down geographic view of the deployment location, wherein the positions and orientations of the weapons are represented within the top-down geographic view.
6. The system of claim 4 , wherein the one or more virtual reality depictions further include one or more of a three-dimensional weapon orientation view, a two-dimensional recoil tracking view, or a user body camera feed view.
7. The system of claim 1 , wherein the virtual reality depiction further represents a detected threat within the deployment location.
8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the virtual reality depiction includes visual prompts representing information relating to one or more users of firearms, the detected threat, or both.
9. The system of claim 7 , wherein the virtual reality depiction includes a legend of icons represented within the updated graphical user interface, the icons corresponding to one or more users of the firearms, the detected threat, or both.
10. The system of claim 1 , wherein the connection point receives some of the signals from wearable devices worn by users of the weapons, wherein the application software uses sensor information included in the signals received from the wearable devices to update the virtual reality depiction.
11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the connection point receives some of the signals from robotic devices, wherein the application software uses sensor information included in the signals received from the robotic devices to update the virtual reality depiction.
12. The system of claim 1 , wherein the connection point is one of a plurality of connection points which receives signals used by the application software to generate or update the virtual reality depiction.
13. The system of claim 1 , wherein a size of a cone of fire of a firearm represented within the virtual reality depiction is based on one or both of a skill level of a user of the firearm or a type of the firearm.
14. The system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of weapons includes at least one tear gas canister.
15. The system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of weapons includes at least one flash grenade.
16. The system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of weapons includes at least one smoke grenade.
17. The system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of weapons includes at least one non-lethal firearm projectile.
18. The system of claim 17 , wherein the at least one non-lethal firearm projectile is a rubber bullet.
19. The system of claim 1 , wherein the plurality of weapons includes at least one explosive ordinance.
20. A system for ammunition monitoring and virtual presentation, the system comprising: a plurality of firearms within a deployment location, wherein each firearm includes one or more sensors that record sensor information used to produce a signal; a server device running application software that uses the signals received from each of the plurality of firearms to detect an ammunition level of a firearm within the deployment location and generates a virtual reality depiction of the ammunition level to present to a user deployed in the deployment location; and a graphical user interface presenting a field of view of the virtual reality depiction of the ammunition level of the firearm to the user.
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